• 9point6@lemmy.world
      10 months

      Needs to be a sleep(3) and sleep(5) between the last ones just to add suspense

      • wheezy@lemmy.ml
        10 months

        Needs a 99% print too just before the 5 second sleep. Followed by a 99.9% and another 2 second sleep. Never print 100 and just run a traceroute in a loop.

        Followed by a “we’re in” from the hacker as we’re made to believe he’s reading the console spam like he’s Neo from the matrix as he types faster and faster into an unresponsive terminal window.

        • gigachad@piefed.socialEnglish
          10 months

          It’s valid Python code though, the semicolons will run but are unnecessary

          • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
            10 months

            demo of semicolons being allowed in Python

            I am so perplexed and horrified. I’m going to need several weeks to get over this. What is this?!

              • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
                10 months

                It seems I had semicolons confused with braces:

                if picture is broken, it’s this:

                ~ $ python -c "from __future__ import braces"
  File "<string>", line 1
SyntaxError: not a chance
                • palordrolap@fedia.io
                  10 months

                  Guido undoubtedly had a strong, strong hatred of the number of ways braces are overloaded in Perl.

                  Do you really want an example?

                  sub doHref { { do { ${someglobal{Href}} = {} }; last }; }

                  Every single pairing there serves a different syntactic purpose. Some are related purposes, and I’ve crowbarred a few in unnecessarily for the sake of an example, but different nonetheless.

                  The outer pair declares the sub, and the next pair is a free block that works as a once-through unlabelled loop, which is exited with the last. (Most other languages use break for this purpose.)

                  The next pair are for the do which doesn’t act as a loop like the free block does. The next innermost pairing wrap a variable and the inner, innermost pairing indicate that the variable is a member of a hash (associative array) and we’re accessing the record named Href.

                  The lone {} indicates a hash reference, so we’re assigning a reference to an empty, anonymous hash to that hash record.

                  This example is ridiculous of course. There’s no need for most of those braces and syntax to do what it actually does. Also assigning to global variables is generally frowned upon.

                  sub doHref { $someglobal{Href} = {} }

                  … is equivalent and cuts out most of the guff. Still three different uses though.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
    10 months

    what about the sleeps between each print?

    where’s the comments?

    why isn’t it DRY?

    3/10 code, PR rejected.

  • sorter_plainview@lemmy.today
    10 months

    You know hackers in the movies are very polite and care for their user. When they are hacking or wiping the disk they show proper progress. That is much better user experience than many corporate products. Be like hackers in the movie.

    • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10 months

      Ransomware has better tech support and customer service than your cell phone provider or ISP.

      • wheezy@lemmy.ml
        10 months

        Their profits come from actual “customers”. They can’t just layoff half of their work force and use stock buybacks to make the line go up. Shit has to actually work.

    • Adalast@lemmy.world
      10 months

      I have seen like 2 movies where the hacker just ran a script and danced around the room until the progress bar got to the top, then he hit a couple inputs and ran another script and went back to dancing. It was so surreal to see something so much closer to real than the feverish hammering in a keyboard.

      • Hoimo@ani.social
        10 months

        There’s also The Core where the hacker says “yea, I can do it”, demands unlimited hot pockets and all of Xena Warrior Princess on VHS, then locks himself up in his room.,

  • Damage@feddit.it
    10 months

    It takes skill to hack such an organization using only printf

    • noughtnaut@lemmy.world
      10 months

      You’d be surprised how versatile that one thing is. Or, should I say, how much abuse it gets at ioccc…

  • Evilschnuff@feddit.org
    English
    10 months

    The hacking in Mr Robot looked more authentic, I really liked it. But they usually just executed some random scripts without printouts lol.

    • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10 months

      In Soviet Russia, print() statement runs on printer.